Collective Punishment in a sentence

Believing the recruits have failed to improve Pyle, Hartman adopts a collective punishment policy: every mistake Pyle makes will earn punishment for the rest of the platoon, with Pyle being spared.

In October 1943, after the Nazis began a brutal occupation of their former ally, German troops hanged six Italian civilians on a hillside in southern Italy as collective punishment for the killing of a soldier, who had been foraging for food.

Israel called for the resignation of the UN secretary general, António Guterres, after he appealed for an immediate ceasefire and said Hamas’s “appalling attacks” could not justify “the collective punishment of the Palestinian people”.

Israel’s reprisals against families and the community for actions they did not take constitutes collective punishment, which is considered a war crime.

Now underway, Israel’s collective punishment of 2.3 million people in Gaza is an intensification of what Israel has been doing to Palestinians for decades.

She said the regime’s “four cuts” strategy to block access to food, funds, information and recruits also continues to target civilians as collective punishment.

The importance of the ceasefire debate is to address that issue, and to insist that in devastating Gaza and imposing collective punishment, Israel has crossed a line.

The imposition of collective punishment in the form of mass expulsions, blockades and unilateral coercive measures entails retrogression in terms of civilization and human rights.

UN chief Antonio Guterres has condemned the "epic human suffering" and "collective punishment" of Palestinian civilians.

We see collective punishment against entire civilian populations in the blockades imposed against people considered unilaterally by some countries as dangerous or hostile.

Bethlehem Governor Kamel Hmeid described the city as somber in light of the suffering endured by Palestinians across all governorates, including Bethlehem, where residents face ongoing violence and collective punishment.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva denounced Israel's war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip Thursday as "collective punishment" after meeting his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Cairo.

Government forces and militants are also "quite paranoid" of spies and locals giving information to the other side, sometimes leading to execution and collective punishment, Webber adds.

In fact, the Israeli stranglehold on Palestinians in Gaza has been gradually tightened over the course of decades, as a means of control, pressure, and collective punishment.

In Palestine, however, the era of collective punishment endures.

Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor, accused Israel of using “starvation as a method of warfare” and carrying out “collective punishment” of the population of Gaza.

Last Wednesday’s angry scenes in the Commons meant an SNP motion calling for a ceasefire and accusing Israel of subjecting Gaza to “collective punishment”, a war crime, was not voted on.

Sending billions in unconditional military aid to Netanyahu’s far-right government to pursue a policy of collective punishment against Palestinians makes a mockery of Biden’s claim to fight Trump-style authoritarianism.

She had resigned from the party in October over the "Labour leadership’s refusal to condemn collective punishment of Palestinians".

What, if not an illegal collective punishment, could it be when the occupying force denies the delivery of essential medical aid to civilians caught up in a warzone.